From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: axboe@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:57:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030913195719.GA17576@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309132124.05974.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:24:05PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Saturday 13 of September 2003 20:49, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > For 2.6, libata (unfortunately) requires the SCSI layer for ATA
> > devices, and libata drives real hardware that noone else can drive.
> >
> > For 2.7, when all this code "moves up" -- basically adding a bunch of
> > helper functions to the block layer -- libata won't need to treat ATA
> > devices as SCSI devices.
>
> s/ATA/SATA/
>
> ATA and SATA will still need their own driver(s) aware of driver-model,
> sysfs, ATA quirks/tuning etc.
Agreed. Though I think some of your work in sysfs area can be made
common.
> I am working on this part currently, so you can
> concentrate on new, sexy SATA, leaving all dirty, legacy ATA for me.
Sounds good to me ;-) Though I'll definitely want to work together with
you on several issues in 2.7...
> For all other stuff described in your mail I can only say: HELL YEAH!.
;-)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-13 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 11:01 DMA for ide-scsi? Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-13 16:25 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-13 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 18:49 ` 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-15 7:34 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-16 19:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-16 19:55 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-20 18:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-20 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-21 9:23 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-13 19:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-13 19:57 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-13 20:16 James Bottomley
2003-09-13 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 11:15 ` Justin Cormack
2003-09-14 15:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-14 16:55 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-14 17:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 18:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-16 2:38 ` Thomas Molina
2003-09-16 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-14 17:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 16:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 2:11 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-14 22:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 6:05 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15 22:16 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15 3:23 ` Andre Hedrick
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